Too negative. Leaving the ECHR and human rights laws is a given and I relish us falling out with the EU. Sorry I will not entertain another Tory lite party. I want drastic action and the quicker the better. Reform have to be the start of the solution and we can build from that.
Agree with you. No one is in doubt that turning the ship around won’t be very difficult. Knowing what to do is the easy bit, execution will be tough. Pete’s far too negative and he’s wrong about the ECHR. Of course the EU will play up again but that edifice is on the verge of collapse and member states will look at leaving the ECHR too. We have to start somewhere and that’s with a Reform government.
If you’re right Pete, and I don’t think you are on the ECHR and sorting out immigration, then the strategy should be to recruit a proper army of non Muslims and get ready for civil war.
As I'm used to saying "If you think Farage is the answer you are asking the wrong question."
Whoever forms the next government they need to know they govern on be behalf of the majority which is why since 2012 I've kept the flame of this alive.
Pete, as usual, nailed it about Reform and Farage. Farage thinks that Reform is a one man personality party and will work against anyone who looks like a threat to his personal success; ie anyone who tries to put the party on an intellectual foundation through actual, well thought out, policies.
To be a Reform candidate somone has only to pass vetting (i.e. no problem tweets or facebook posts, no criminal record). There is no creed to support, no idoelogical or policy conformity to check, no political experience required, just headline soundbites to parrot.
Anyone we chose would be a bad bet. That’s the point. No British politician I know of is up to it. If I had to play ‘Fantasy Dictatorship’ I’d choose Trump’s current cabinet.
I don't have any faith in Reform at all. The moronic led by the vain in my opinion and that's based on my interactions with them.
My own local Reform PPC is a fine teacher but her politics are bonkers. Her ideas seem rooted in early 80s left wing activism but has drifted to an anti-trans, anti-immigration stance but in the last hustings she thought Margaret Thatcher led Britain into an illegal war over the Falklands and compared it with Blair's invasion of Iraq. I live in Camberley, an army town and she was rightly booed.
Then I had a really nasty encounter with that "fake" Reform candidate, the one the press first thought was AI generated but it turned out he was real but his publicity photo was AI. That guy is a British version of Nick Fuentes: Not just anti-immigration, but round 'em all up and shoot them if necessary. And that's just his most positive policy idea.
And the rest of Reform's ranks are just plain arseholes...ever disagreed with one of them? And were they polite?
As for the intellectual heavyweights and defectors they keep promising to recruit: A bunch of Tory nobodies and decent men like Danny Kruger and James Orr who have seemingly shed 30 IQ points in joining Reform. Kruger was leading the fight against assisted suicide, since joining Reform he's given that up and is indulging in the childish parliamentary stunts normally associated with Lee Anderson or Tice. Orr hasn't written or said anything of substance since he joined as well, his output being tedious "Reform surge! Zero seats for the Tories!" See also, Goodwin, M.
And then there's Zia Yusuf...a true moron of politics. He might know a lot about venture capitalism and he's good at ridiculing the Left but he is ignorant of the British constitution and how parliament works and David Starkey has hinted their lunch together consisted of him trying to get him to understand it but to no avail.
Reform do best when they can play the victim card. "Oh poor us! Oh how we're ignored in parliament!" I half suspect this latest black shirt fiasco is them manufacturing a scenario where they can claim they're being persecuted.
And they can't even say if they're right wing or not. No brains, no seriousness, no spine.
Too negative. Leaving the ECHR and human rights laws is a given and I relish us falling out with the EU. Sorry I will not entertain another Tory lite party. I want drastic action and the quicker the better. Reform have to be the start of the solution and we can build from that.
Agree with you. No one is in doubt that turning the ship around won’t be very difficult. Knowing what to do is the easy bit, execution will be tough. Pete’s far too negative and he’s wrong about the ECHR. Of course the EU will play up again but that edifice is on the verge of collapse and member states will look at leaving the ECHR too. We have to start somewhere and that’s with a Reform government.
I agree, but these are just words. We can talk about these things until we are blue in the face, but nothing will happen.
If you’re right Pete, and I don’t think you are on the ECHR and sorting out immigration, then the strategy should be to recruit a proper army of non Muslims and get ready for civil war.
As I'm used to saying "If you think Farage is the answer you are asking the wrong question."
Whoever forms the next government they need to know they govern on be behalf of the majority which is why since 2012 I've kept the flame of this alive.
https://harrogateagenda.org.uk/
Pete, as usual, nailed it about Reform and Farage. Farage thinks that Reform is a one man personality party and will work against anyone who looks like a threat to his personal success; ie anyone who tries to put the party on an intellectual foundation through actual, well thought out, policies.
To be a Reform candidate somone has only to pass vetting (i.e. no problem tweets or facebook posts, no criminal record). There is no creed to support, no idoelogical or policy conformity to check, no political experience required, just headline soundbites to parrot.
2029 will be too late. We need changes now.
Yes, but how? 'We' have such little power.
Democracy is overrated. We need a period of direct rule.
Ha! Good one. Nothing like a dictatorship to sort us out!!
It’s what the Romans would have done.
By who - Corbyn?!
‘Whom’
Thank you - so by whom - Corbyn, Blair or someone else?
Anyone we chose would be a bad bet. That’s the point. No British politician I know of is up to it. If I had to play ‘Fantasy Dictatorship’ I’d choose Trump’s current cabinet.
Love reading your stuff Peter - thought provoking as ever. Just have a free nice sentence or two and I'll leave it at that for today.
You know my thoughts on Reform - let's do a 'humbug show' just before Xmas.
Great post as always.
Very minor points. There is no such thing as 'International Law'. There are international agreements.
An aside, there is no such thing as an 'illegal war'. Declared by who (whom)? The law in my house is different to the law in your house.
No.
So we have a high calibre of MP at the moment do we?
Well give me a raw christian moral nationalistic MP rather than the robotic immoral yes men we have presently.
I think we’ve become so used to the pathetic bunch of MPs in Parliament we give them credence they thoroughly don’t deserve.
I don't have any faith in Reform at all. The moronic led by the vain in my opinion and that's based on my interactions with them.
My own local Reform PPC is a fine teacher but her politics are bonkers. Her ideas seem rooted in early 80s left wing activism but has drifted to an anti-trans, anti-immigration stance but in the last hustings she thought Margaret Thatcher led Britain into an illegal war over the Falklands and compared it with Blair's invasion of Iraq. I live in Camberley, an army town and she was rightly booed.
Then I had a really nasty encounter with that "fake" Reform candidate, the one the press first thought was AI generated but it turned out he was real but his publicity photo was AI. That guy is a British version of Nick Fuentes: Not just anti-immigration, but round 'em all up and shoot them if necessary. And that's just his most positive policy idea.
And the rest of Reform's ranks are just plain arseholes...ever disagreed with one of them? And were they polite?
As for the intellectual heavyweights and defectors they keep promising to recruit: A bunch of Tory nobodies and decent men like Danny Kruger and James Orr who have seemingly shed 30 IQ points in joining Reform. Kruger was leading the fight against assisted suicide, since joining Reform he's given that up and is indulging in the childish parliamentary stunts normally associated with Lee Anderson or Tice. Orr hasn't written or said anything of substance since he joined as well, his output being tedious "Reform surge! Zero seats for the Tories!" See also, Goodwin, M.
And then there's Zia Yusuf...a true moron of politics. He might know a lot about venture capitalism and he's good at ridiculing the Left but he is ignorant of the British constitution and how parliament works and David Starkey has hinted their lunch together consisted of him trying to get him to understand it but to no avail.
Reform do best when they can play the victim card. "Oh poor us! Oh how we're ignored in parliament!" I half suspect this latest black shirt fiasco is them manufacturing a scenario where they can claim they're being persecuted.
And they can't even say if they're right wing or not. No brains, no seriousness, no spine.